ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,122, issued on March 18, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"System and method for password-less authentication through digital driving license" was invented by Kumar Rao Krishnagi (Powell, Ohio), Stefan Schubert (Columbus, Ohio), Suresh Madhavan (Edison, N.J.) and Sandeep Reddy Banala (Monroe, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Password-less authentication and login onto an application are disclosed. A processor extracts Digital Driver's License (DDL) data from a user's computing device; extracts the DDL data of the user from an external database (i.e., DMV); validates the DDL data by comparing with the DDL data ...